# Catering Assistant- Hillingdon

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Archived / closed
- **Employer:** The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Uxbridge
- **Region:** London
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Estates and facilities
- **Grade:** Band 2
- **Salary:** £26,696 Per Annum pro rata for part time hours
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Sunday 5 over 7)
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-24T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-10T08:22:16.980Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Uxbridge/The_Hillingdon_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Catering/Catering-v8079211
- **Employer website:** https://www.thh.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Catering Assistant

- hours per week

Monday - Sunday 5 over 7

Flexible hours mix of early and late shifts

We are looking for someone to work as part of the Catering Team, assisting in all aspects of preparation, service, wash-up and cleaning duties related to the provision of a high quality catering service to patients, staff, visitors and hospitality functions

To meet standards in line with agreed policy’s, procedures, including key performance Indicators (KPIs) profitability and productivity

Maintain good customer and colleague relations at all times.

### Main duties of the job

This list covers all the main duties that would be expected of catering assistants, these will vary between Kitchen/Dining Room.

- Completion of hygiene records and documents as per HACCP.(Hazards Analysis critical control)
- Maintaining high standards of personal and general food hygiene.
- Maintain high standards of cleanliness and tidiness in all catering areas.
- Assist in preparation and service of food and beverages for staff, patient’s visitors and hospitality functions.
- Probing of all food temperatures and recording; during storage, preparation, regeneration and service, adhering to food hygiene legislation at all times.
- Assisting with the management of stock; receipt, rotation storage, stocking up and stock taking.
- Till duties, following cash handling procedures.
- Menu co-ordination, picking & packing of ward food according to menu choice and recording information.
- Delivery of meals and provisions to patients and to other units.
- Cleaning and wash-up of all equipment, machinery, crockery and cutlery associated with the above service.
- Cleaning and stocking the vending machines.
- Topping up all cleaning materials in work area as appropriate.
- Appropriate disposal of refuse.
- Reporting of maintenance and pest control issues.
- Maintaining safe systems of work.

Other duties as required according to the needs of the service

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification

## Person Specification

### Person Spec

**Essential**

- Education and Qualifications
- Experience and Knowledge
- Skills and Ability

**Desirable**

- Experience working in a catering environment
- Manual Handling training

## Documents

- [person spec (pdf, 160.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10371177)
- [job description (pdf, 168.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10371176)
- [culture & values - cares behaviours (pdf, 155.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1043)

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